Coordination

Keywords

Training and Capacity Building

The implementation or transformation of public policies aimed at strengthening museums in the region necessarily involves the people who work in these institutions. Therefore, one of Ibermuseums’ most important contributions to the segment is to promote the training and capacity building of Ibero-American museum workers.

Ibermuseums seeks to expand its activities through the knowledge that reflects its lines of action, in addition to those identified in different studies on the sector carried out by the Training and Capacity Building and the IOM. The goal is to promote best practices in management, research, conservation, communication, mediation, engagement and other areas that help shape the institutional life of museums.

This effort makes it possible to carry out specific courses on priority subjects, focused on issues of general interest to museum professionals from all countries of the Ibero-American region and/or specific problems related to a particular group of countries. Also, this line of action fosters the mobility of technicians and professionals in the region through training grants, participation in training activities and the meetings in museums or similar institutions.

More than 300 technicians and professionals have benefited from Training and Capacity Building projects, attending Ibermuseums courses and workshops and through scholarships. As a result, more than eight hundred institutions have potentially benefited from the consequences of train-the-trainer actions undertaken by these participants.

Projects

Conversatorios Ibermuseos: museos, cultura y patrimonio

Ibermuseums Training Grants

Annual public call for proposal dedicated to strengthening the skills and knowledge of museum workers through theoretical and practical training. These are scholarships that promote mobility by funding participation in courses, seminars, workshops, congresses and other academic activities in countries of the Ibero-American region.

Management of Museological Collections

10 years of Ibermuseums

387 trained professionals

201 in courses
+ 97 fellows
+ 89 in workshops

Why Ibermuseums?

“I believe that learning is a collective enterprise. Even if you can learn in solitude and teach yourself, there is nothing so enriching as sharing experiences and being accompanied along the way. Ibermuseums promotes cooperation between countries: its main strength is to foster the relationship between managers and museum professionals from different contexts who are facing similar challenges to boost their capacities.”

Since 2007, we have been working together to strengthen Ibero-American museums in three key areas: promoting the importance of museological heritage; highlighting the need to offer training and ensure the mobility of professionals working at these institutions; and facilitating the production, circulation and exchange of knowledge through liaising and creating networks to promote public policies for the sector.